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Maine Festival of the Book

88 Bedford Street
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 871-9100

          

Mar 29 thru Apr 01, 2012. Annual Maine Festival of the Book at the Abromson Center, USM. Four days, more than 75 authors, artists, and performers. Programs for ages 3 to 100! Loyal attendees will notice we have added a day to include a special program Thursday night presented in collaboration with Maine Humanities Council and the Kate Cheney Chappell '83 Center for Book Arts at USM. Opening Night will be Friday night, March 30. Enjoy a free day of programs for all ages on Saturday, March 31 at the Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine with readings, panel discussions, film, signings, book sales and kids programs too. Event #5596 |   Report Update

Author Melissa Coleman: This Life is in Your Hands - Portland Public Library

5 Monument Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 871-1700

          

Apr 04, 2012. Melissa Coleman speaks about her book This Life Is in Your Hands at the Brown Bag Lecture Series from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4th at the Portland Public Library. The Lecture will be held in the Rines Auditorium. Set on a rugged coastal homestead during the 1970s, This Life Is in Your Hands introduces a superb young writer driven by the need to uncover the truth of a childhood tragedy and connect anew with the beauty and vitality of the back-to-the land ideal that shaped her early years. In the fall of 1968, Melissa Coleman's parents, Eliot and Sue - a handsome, idealistic young couple from well-to-do families - pack a few essentials into their VW bus and abandon the complications of modern existence to carve a farm from the woods. They move to a remote peninsula on the coast of Maine and become disciples of Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of the homesteading bible Living the Good Life. On sixty acres of sandy, intractable land they begin to forge a new existence, subsisting on the crops they grow and building a home. Event #8654 |   Report Update

Edible Book Festival - Portland Public Library

5 Monument Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 871-1700

          

Apr 06, 2012. The Portland Public Library announces an Edible Book Festival where community members and library patrons are invited to create a piece of edible art referencing a book or poem. Edible art submissions can look like a book or poem, pun on a title of a book or poem, resemble a character or scene or just have something to do with a book or poem. The only major criteria are that all submissions must be edible and based on a book or poem! Children's books, mystery novels, fiction, non-fiction, biographies, short stories, poetry, even cookbooks will be on display and created from all types of food -from veggies to colorful frosting and everything in between. Last years winners included Three Cakes of Tea constructed out of cakes shaped like the letter T, and "Beer and Loathing in Las Haggis" created from cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon and cooked Haggis. The Edible Book Festival will be held during the First Friday Art Walk in the Rines Auditorium at the Portland Public Library on April 6th. Edible books will be on exhibit from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. where members of the public can vote for their favorite. Peoples Choice Awards will be presented at 7 p.m. Register for the Edible Book Festival by emailing weyand@portland.lib.me.us or by calling Rachael at (207) 871-1700 ext. 723. Registration is free and participants are asked to drop off their work of art between 3 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Friday, April 6th. Event #8582 |   Report Update